cjzhang

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Is it possible to get a view that shows average price AND the number of samples (maybe if you mouse over a column) at the same time? Or maybe some info about stuff like variance, stdev, median, etc?

Trying to figure out why green cars are cheaper:

It looks like green cars are mostly from 97 to 2003 in a roughly normal curve, while most other colors are exponential (so mostly from the last couple years instead, and dropping off dramatically once you reach 2005 and older). Not counting purple, which has 8 samples and is therefore mostly useless, hah.

Comment · 14 years ago

But what about the time investment needed in finding an acceptable car on Craigslist compared to finding one from a dealer?

If you're spending something like 100 bucks and 20 extra hours over three weeks checking out N more cars that don't pan out because {the guy lied about the condition of the car, the guy selling it is really sketchy, other random reasons}, then is it still worth it to save an extra 1-2k?

What I'm trying to ask basically is "but what kind of opportunity costs are involved in these hacks, and when does it stop being viable"?

Comment · 15 years ago

If not, maybe it's time for a web-based BitTorrent of some kind. The important thing is that file sharing would go back to being a download-only operation which would (ideally) free fans from the threat of disconnects and lawsuits. This is all well beyond anything I could ever do, which is why I ask about it here. To me, this is the inevitable future of the web.

Don't take this the wrong way but, are you trolling?

EDIT: Also, Mad Men's on Netflix streaming, off the top of my head.

Comment · 15 years ago

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Parametrized_SQL_statement

But no, seriously, you should be using a library or something that sanitizes your SQL queries for you. If you aren't constructing the query string yourself, you should be okay.

Comment · 15 years ago

This doesn't seem to be through the main humble bundle site. Are you reselling the bundles or something?

Comment · 15 years ago

In the leak file u will fine

Really?

Comment · 15 years ago

I personally feel that women get turned off to CS and in general tech courses because they're male-dominated and usually somewhat misogynistic, which makes being in CS classes and interacting with CS majors sometimes unpleasant and encourages them to do something else.

In general, women are perfectly intelligent and capable of studying (see: women in premed, women in law, etc, etc).

CS isn't some mystical major that's harder than every other major ever (me, I'm scared of business majors; those guys are cutthroat), and I don't think "women can't commit themselves and women can't study the same way and women don't do research" is really a good explanation for why there are fewer women in CS than there are in premed.

Comment · 15 years ago

Why didn't you just say "women can't code?"

Also, the sample size is crap and the deviation is crap relative to the sample size, so you can't make very many truly meaningful observations from it.

Comment · 15 years ago

It's actually not that hard to get the basics if you're used to ASCII graphics or using a tileset. I was able to figure out how to play it (with the help of the wiki for laptop-friendly controsl) in only half an hour of poking around, mostly.

Comment · 15 years ago

Mostly I play it because I like chaining tame hydras in front of the bridge that leads into my trading post.

Comment · 15 years ago

I don't think it's creepy, as long as you don't bring up information that might be too personal.

A rule of thumb I read was "Would this be creepy if it happened in real life?", and here you'd be analogous to "a restaurant owner asking a customer how their experience is on their opening day", which is totally normal.

Comment · 15 years ago

Actually, they introduced the concept of private fields and restructured all their architecture to allow for profile fields to be optionally hidden...

Oh wait, they already had that.

Comment · 15 years ago

Are you saying you should be allowed to use racial slurs because disallowing people to say them doesn't make them less racist?

Comment · 15 years ago

Because when they complain about being sexually harassed or uncomfortable with the attention they get by being seen as a pair of tits, men invariably say or imply that they're being unreasonable for being offended, which doesn't solve the problem itself (which is that they're offended)?

Comment · 15 years ago

I thought the "please let me know" in lowercase while almost everything else is allcaps was a nice touch.